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Produced to garner support for the 1956 Federal Aid-Highway Act, the law that enabled the Interstate Highway system. After a small town learns that it is to be bypassed by a new freeway, highway officials and politicians help to convince residents that the freeway is actually in their interest. The film ends as it began, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new stretch of highway.
( 2 reviews )
Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Car culture: General

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Highway Hearing (Part I)

Jul 16, 2002 07/02

by Universal-International

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Safe Roads

Jul 16, 2002 07/02

by Handy (Jam) Organization

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Driving is compared with running a railroad train. With excellent images of steam-era passenger trains.
( 4 reviews )
Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Safety: Automotive

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Caught Mapping

Jul 16, 2002 07/02

by Handy (Jam) Organization

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How road maps are drawn, field-checked and printed.
( 3 reviews )
Topics: Cartography, Geography, Infrastructure: Roads and highways

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Wheels of Progress

Jul 16, 2002 07/02

by U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture, Educational Film Service

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Reviews the history of transportation in the U.S. and promotes the economic and social benefits of more and better public roads..
( 2 reviews )
Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Automobiles: History

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[California State Highway 101 Opening]

Jul 16, 2002 07/02

by Unknown

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Opening of California State Highway 101 at San Francisco, with 50,000 people in attendance; parade of automobiles from San Francisco Civic Center; Mayor James "Sunny Jim" Rolph of San Francisco; Mayor Taylor of San Mateo; county supervisors; Queen Clara Carli; aerial views of highway and air-to-air shots of airplane carrying dignitaries. The highway linked San Francisco with northern San Mateo County to the south.
( 2 reviews )
Topics: San Francisco: Infrastructure, Celebrations, Infrastructure: Roads and highways

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[Lincoln Highway Dedication]

Jul 16, 2002 07/02

by Unknown

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Dedication of the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway (old U.S. 30), the legendary transcontinental route, in Lincoln Park, San Francisco.
( 1 reviews )
Topics: San Francisco: Infrastructure, Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Celebrations

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Builders Of The Broad Highway 2

Mar 1, 2007 03/07

by Frith Films

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Frith Films presents, Builders Of The Broad Highway, Part 2. Produced and Photographed by Emily Benton Firth, Commentator Don McNamara.
( 2 reviews )
Topics: Motion Pictures: Sponsored, Sustainability, Infrastructure: Roads and Highways, Occupations:...

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Builders Of The Broad Highway 1

Mar 1, 2007 03/07

by Frith Films

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Frith Films presents, Builders Of The Broad Highway, Part 1. Produced and Photographed by Emily Benton Firth, Commentator Don McNamara.
( 3 reviews )
Topics: Motion Pictures: Sponsored, Sustainability, Infrastructure: Roads and Highways, Occupations:...

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Your Permit to Drive

Jul 16, 2002 07/02

by General Motors Photographic

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Talking driver's license narrates this hymn to the beneficial effects of highways, cars, and driving.
( 7 reviews )
Topics: Safety: Driving, Car culture, Infrastructure: Roads and highways

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Freedom of the American Road (Part II)

Jul 16, 2002 07/02

by MPO Productions, Inc.

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Henry Ford II introduces this film designed to encourage private citizens to unite and support road improvement. Part of the lobbying campaign that culminated in legislation authorizing the Interstate Highway system in 1956, this film shows community efforts to improve and increase safety on the Bayshore Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area; congestion in Pittsburgh and the Golden Triangle redevelopment area; the economic benefits of Boston's circumferential highway, Route 128; and safety...
( 3 reviews )
Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, San Francisco: Infrastructure, Manifest destiny

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Conquering Roads

Jul 16, 2002 07/02

by Handy (Jam) Organization

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Highway engineering and development in the pre-Interstate era.
( 3 reviews )
Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Land use, Civil engineering

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Freedom of the American Road (Part I)

Jul 16, 2002 07/02

by MPO Productions, Inc.

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Give Yourself the Green Light

Jul 16, 2002 07/02

by Handy (Jam) Organization

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Advocacy film produced to garner public support for the creation of the Interstate Highway System.
( 10 reviews )
Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Car culture: General, Manifest destiny

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Open Road A

Mar 1, 2007 03/07

by Bethlehem Steel Company

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Educational film about how steel is used to make highways, including problems that occur with time and use.
( 2 reviews )
Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and Highways, Civil Engineering, City Planning, Metals: Steel: Steel Industry

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Open Road B

Mar 1, 2007 03/07

by Bethlehem Steel Company

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Educational film about how steel is used to make highways, including problems that occur with time and use.
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and Highways, Civil Engineering, City Planning, Metals: Steel: Steel Industry

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To New Horizons

Jul 16, 2002 07/02

by Handy (Jam) Organization

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Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the World's Fair, which looks ahead to the "wonder world of 1960."
( 14 reviews )
Topics: Futurism, World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Infrastructure: Roads and highways

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